The Art Of Shakspere, As Revealed By Himself
[Footnote: 1863.]

Who taught you this?
I learn‘d it out of women‘s faces.
_Winter‘s Tale_, Act ii. scene 1.
One occasionally hears the remark, that the commentators upon Shakspere find far more in Shakspere than Shakspere ever intended to express. Taking this assertion as it stands, it may be freely granted, not only of Shakspere, but of every writer of genius. But if it be intended by it, that nothing can _exist_ in any work of art beyond what the writer was conscious of while in the act of producing it, so much of its scope is false.
No artist can have such a claim to the high title of _creator_, as that he invents for himself the forms, by means of which he produces his new result； and all the forms of man and nature which he modifies and combines to make a new region in his world of art, have their own original life and meaning. The laws likewise of their various combinations are natural laws, harmonious with eac

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